Main Research Interest

I am interested in bio-mimetic mobile robots,
including the modelling, simulation, sensor fusion, pattern recognition,
and unsupervised learning. In Essex robotic fish team, we produced the
first autonomous robotic fish in the world (please see picture gallery
, and video gallery).
In this achievement, I designed and coded a 3D robotic fish simulator in
order to evaluate control algorithm in real robotic fish. I built a
novel kinematical model for the bio-mimetic control, and implemented it
in our robotic fish.

In terms of unsupervised learning and adaptive
control upon mobile robots. I have investigated the impact of
reinforcement learning upon robotic fish behaviours in my PhD. Using an
improved policy gradient reinforcement learning algorithm, a robotic fish
can optimise its swimming parameters to achieve a larger turning angle.

Now, I am doing the group control of multiple
mobile robots, i.e. flock control. we plan to have a fish school in a big
tank.